Thursday, June 23, 2005

Straw says British troops will leave Iraq "as quickly as possible"

Speaking at a conference on the war-scarred country, he also reiterated that Britain was "ashamed" of prisoner abuses carried out by US and British forces, but maintains its call for Iraqi human rights standards to improve.
Straw's comments on British troop withdrawals came two days after a top US commander said that the United States will start to pull its forces out by next March.